Lower risk of breast cancer occurrence but higher mortality amongst low-educated and immigrant women
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 08:31
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Low-educated and immigrant women run a lower risk of breast cancer occurrence than highly educated women and women born in Sweden. However, the risk of dying from breast cancer is higher for those low-educated and immigrant women that do get the diagnose - a development that has occurred in Sweden during the last ten years. This according to a new study from the Karolinska Institutet based on the records of some 5 million women between 1961 and 2007.